Hello all! I am a new member, and am enjoying the music VERY much. My name is Craig, I am an Auctioneer living in Southern Michigan, and have a great love for Celtic music, and Bluegrass. My family hails from England, Scottland.Ireland,Germany,and French Canada. My step Grandfather was a member of clan Rose. My mothers family are Fords, Woods, and Brummels. My fathers side is German. I found this site looking for geneology Info, and thought I would get involved because of my love for the celtic heritage. Hope to learn much more of it in general, and in particularly regarding my family.

Hi Craig! So glad you found us! Yeah the music is ncie and so are the people! You'll not find a nicer bunch of people to chat with anywhere else on the net in my opinion! Look around. You'll find lots of intereesting things to talk about. And if nothing catches your eye, start something new! We love to find new and interesting things to talk about!

Anyway, Welcome to the family! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! Come back and visit with us often!

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Slàn agus beannachd,Allen R. Alderman

'S i Alba tìr mo chridhe. 'S i Gàidhlig cànan m' anama.Scotland is the land of my heart. Gaelic is the language of my soul.

Welcome neighbor! I am glad you decided to join and I hope you stay for a while. I enjoy talking to everyone and hope to get to talk to you too If you don't mind me asking, what part of southern Michigan? I live three minutes outside Port Huron, it's a good size town so you might have heard it or been here. Well hopefully I'll see you around

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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. ~Ralph Waldo EmersonIf you judge people you have no time to love them. ~Mother Teresa

Welcome aboard Craig! It is great to see new people coming in! You will be very hard pressed to find a better group of people. BTW - when your online, take a peek in the chat room, you never can tell who will be in!

"I am a Canadian by birth, but I am a Highlander by blood and feel under an obligation to do all I can for the sake of the Highlanders and their literature.... I have never yet spoken a word of English to any of my children. They can speak as much English as they like to others, but when they talk to me they have to talk in Gaelic."

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. Robert A. Heinlein

Welcome Craig and Rindy. Glad you found us and glad you decided to stick around for a while. Like they say, "The more, the merrier." Go ahead and jump in. And Craig, if you're really a fast talker, you might give Annabelle (aka "Mouth of the South") a run for her money, but you better be able to talk boy.